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Bureau for Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM)
 

The Bureau for Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) leads the State Department'shumanitarian efforts and manages major foreign assistance for refugees, IDPs and migrants.

PRM's humanitarian assistance and protection activities throughout the world include:· Protecting people in crisis: Protecting refugees, conflict victims, internally displacedpeople (IDPs), stateless individuals, and vulnerable migrants is at the core of PRM'smission.

  • Achieving lasting solutions to displacement: Finding durable solutions todisplacement, including the voluntary and safe return of refugees and conflict victimsto their homes, local integration into host communities, and, for a smaller number, thirdcountry resettlement when neither return nor local integration is possible.
  • Advancing population diplomacy: PRM also coordinates USG internationalpopulation policy, working closely with USAID.
  • Promoting U.S. Values in Migration Policy: PRM leads Department efforts onmigration policy, including where migration intersects with human rights, labor, economicdevelopment, climate change, remittances, and law enforcement.

Tbilisi Embassy Regional OfficeThe Refugee Affairs Regional Office in Tbilisi oversees the implementation of approximatelyUS$25 million in USG humanitarian assistance programs aiming to secure durable solutions,including integration in displacement and return to their place of origin, for those whom regionalconflicts have forced to leave their homes.The Tbilisi Refugee Office administers PRM-funded programs in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan,the Russian Federation and Central Asia.

Georgia

In FY2008, USD 30,000,000 went to fund shelter and livelihood for IDPs in Shida Kartli in orderto help Georgia address the urgent need for food/feed, durable housing, and assist thousandsof displaced persons and returnees to the Shida Karli region in their recovery from the economicimpact of the Georgian-Russian conflict.

In FY2009, PRM, through UNHCR's Protection and Assistance Program, contributed$9,000,000,000 to support IDPs including economic support initiatives, sexual and genderbased violence prevention and response mechanisms, social housing for vulnerable familiesand Elderly Care Homes, rehabilitation works of Collective Centers and construction of durablebath facilities in new settlements.
In FY2010 PRM funding of $10,000,000,000 has been allocated to support protection andintegration of IDPs and returned displaced population. The projects carried out by UNHCR willinclude, tailor-made durable housing solutions, socio-economic support for full (re)integrationand self reliance of households, capacity building of national agencies and line ministry toimplement National Action Plan, gender-based violence prevention and response activities andcommunity mobilization initiatives.

For more information on PRM programs please contact the Office of the Refugee Coordinator at (995) 32 227 70 00